Alexander allen



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A. ALLEN.

GARD OR TIUKET CASE. No. 404,515; Patented June 4, 1889.

N. PETERS, FhnKo-Lilbomphur, Wilhinghm D C.

UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

ALEXANDER ALLEN, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, ASSIGNOR TO JULIAN SALE, OF SAME PLACE.

CARD OR TICKET CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 404,515, dated June 4, 1889. Application filed February l8 1887. Renewed April 12, 1889. Serial No. 307,074. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER ALLEN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in the city of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Card or Ticket Cases; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being made to the ac- 1o companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometrical projection of a case partially open. Fig. 2 isan isometrical.

projection of a form of spring which may be used in one form of the case.

r 5 My invention consists of constructions and combinations, all as will hereinafter be described and claimed, of a card or ticket case, which may be made of German silver, sheetcopper, brass, or other suitable material so arranged as to hold a number of cards, tickets, or envelopes, and by the moving of a projecting knob or handle one at a time may be pushed or drawn from the case without opening the case or disturbing the other contents.

In Fig. 1,A is the lower portion of the case,

and B the upper part. These are so made that the one slides upon the other, and the case is opened by drawing them apart. Fig.

1 shows the case partially open.

C is a sliding plate on the under side of B, and which may be moved by means of the knob or handle D, which projects through the slot, as shown.

L in Fig. 1 represents a plate in the bottom of the space, into which the cards or tickets are placed.

Fig. 2 represents a spring, which is placed under the cards or tickets, so as by its pressure to keep the cards or tickets always up against the under side of B. This spring is formed from a single plate K, and the strips G G, which restupon the bottom of the case, are cut in such manner as to leave the ends of the plate of the same width as originally, so that the cards or tickets will be supported at the corners.

The case, being supplied with cards or tickets, is operated in the following manner: The cards or tickets being pressed by the spring or springs against the under side of B, then by means of the knob D the plate C is shoved forward, and, pressing against the end of the upmost card, shoves it out at the end of the case through the small space formed for that purpose by having the end of A not quite high enough to touch B, as shown in Fig. 1.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a case for cards, tickets, or envelopes, the combination of knob D, sliding plate C, and the plate K, having the spring-strips cut and arranged substantially as described.

ALEXANDER ALLEN. \Vitnesses:

A. FRASER, GEO. C. ROBE. 

